Ulriken

Ulriken (643 meters of altitude) is highest of the seven mountains of syv fjell in Norwegian) surrounding the town of Bergen. It belongs to the solid mass of Byfjellene and is connected to Rundemanen by Vidden, the plate .

Ulriken has a Téléphérique, Ulriksbanen. Closed beginning 2006 for safety reasons it was reopened in spring of the same year. The peak where a tower of television is, a restaurant and telescopes is with 605m and is not exactly the top, which is more in the east and culminates with 643m.

History

The first local kinglets settled with the foot of Ulriken, with Alrekstad. One found two funerary hillocks recently besides, like two tombs in Isdalen, one of the valleys which drain on Svartediket, in the north of Ulriken. With regard to largest of the hillocks, named Storhaugen, the large hillock , it was discovered in 1910 by the conservative Haakon Shetelig of the Museum of Bergen, after being evoked by a local writer in 1779. It measurement 24 meters length and 1,5 meter in height.

The first rise celebrates of Ulriken take place in 1853. Henrik Ibsen, then professor of theater, formed part of it. In 1896, the newspapers evoked the pioneer Johan N.L. Blytt, which skied on the mountain, and the same year take place the first contest of ski jump in Bergen. Many a Hytte R was quickly built, and the first race with skis of Bergen take place in 1908 with Gimlebakken on the slopes in the west of Vasslifjellet, in the south east of Ulriken. The following year take place the first national competition of combination ski/ski jump. In 1963, a walk joins together: 4000 participants and in 1967: 19000.

Between 1959 and 1964 was built Ulrikentunnelen, a railway tunnel connecting Bergen to Arna. Of a length of: 7660 meters, it avoids a long turning around Byfjellene.

The tower was built in 1959 and entered in service in 1960. Construction was difficult because of the transport of materials. The concrete tower measures 40 meters and the antenna, 38 meters.

Ulriksbanen, the cable car, was built by a Swiss company in 1961. Station of Haukelandsbakken at the station of arrival, there is a distance from: 1120m. The cable car is equipped with two cabins being able to contain each one 25 passengers. The way lasts three minutes and the cable car has a capacity of 375 passengers per hour. The July 9th 1974 a cabin fell and 4 people died in the accident. It was reopened in 1979. The multitude is of approximately: 150000 people per annum.

The restaurant opened with the beginning of the year 1980.

Ulriken in the literature

In its Song for Bergen ( Blood til Bergen ), Johan Nordahl Brun describes the sight since Ulriken.
But that which the mountain marked the most is undoubtedly Ibsen, which devoted at least three poems to him.

VI vandrer med freidig word

VI vandrer med freidig word is a poem dedicated to Ulriken which was written by Henrik Ibsen after its rise in 1853. It describes the beauty of the mountain and the power of nature.

VI vandrer med freidig word

VI vandrer med freidig word, vårt sinn er lett og rapp vår fot
I høyden, oppad på fjellet, I dypet, ved fossevellet
the veien gå hvorhen den cheap, VI vandrer frem med blood og spill.

Her er VI I guds natur! som bekken cheap I fjellets ur
så stevner VI frem på ferden, Ti åpen ose ligger verden
og derfor VI som fuglen glad cheap juble høyt I sky vårt kvad.

VI er OJ in lystig flokk, front word og sanger har VI nok.
The storme kun C på fjorden, the true med lyn og torden!
VI fukter strupen, går vår gang og hilser fjell og fjord med blood.

See too

External bond

Hiking in Hordaland: Ulriken
of a plate at the top of Ulriken, with the song Blood til Bergen
History of Ulriken (Bergens Tidende)

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